Dinos Deck #751676 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 65/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Control
• Format: duel-links

Legality

Main 30 / Extra 9 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Dinosaur recursion (Babycerasaurus, Miscellaneousaurus, Souleating Oviraptor) feeding large Dinosaur bodies (Ultimate Conductor Tyranno 3500, Overtex Qoatlus 2700, Dogoran 3000) and Link/Xyz closers (Underworld Goddess, Evolzar Laggia/Dolkka) (Inferred from card text).; Negation-backed Xyz and Link boards (Evolzar Laggia summon/activation negates, Underworld Goddess negates face-up monsters, Decode Talker Heatsoul ATK gain) that take over a board once it is established (Inferred from card text).
• Turn 1 (going first): Fossil Dig or a Dinosaur searcher line into a Level 4 Dinosaur starter (Babycerasaurus, Miscellaneousaurus, Souleating Oviraptor), then Extra Deck summons and recursion through the Graveyard (Inferred from card text; no recorded boards).
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Effect Veiler x3, Artifact Lancea x3) and Forbidden Droplet to answer the opposing board, then recursion from the Graveyard to rebuild a Dinosaur board (Inferred from card text).
• Recovery: Revival from the Graveyard on destruction by card effect (Babycerasaurus, Petiteranodon, Miscellaneousaurus, Souleating Oviraptor) and Dinosaur banish costs fed back into Tyranno, Qoatlus and Giant Rex (Inferred from card text).
• After siding: No side deck in Duel Links; no post-side plan applies.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Dinosaur starter: Fossil Dig and the three-copy Level 4 and Level 2 Dinosaur bodies give an 0.82 chance of at least one searcher in the opening five, and the Dinosaur bodies recur from the Graveyard when destroyed by card effects, which keeps the line alive after interruption. Interaction is the strongest part of the system: six hand traps, Forbidden Droplet, and Evolzar and Underworld Goddess negates cover both turns and the end of the board. Closing power comes from the Dinosaur-race threats (Tyranno at 3500 ATK, Dogoran, Qoatlus, Giant Rex) and from Link and Xyz boards that connect to them. The score is built from consistency, recursion, interaction, and closing on the system, not from averaging card scores, and archetype popularity and guide mentions earned no points. The ceiling and median are not separable from evidence because no combo boards were recorded, so combo dimensions are text-only and lower the confidence.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 67.9, Going First ≈ 68, Going Second ≈ 72, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 64. Modifiers: No recorded combo boards (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional) = 0.80*67.9 + 0.20*64 - 2 = 65.1, rounded to 65

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.82 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ — (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Recursive Dinosaur bodies that revive from the Graveyard when destroyed by card effect, giving multiple routes after interruption.
• Six hand traps plus Forbidden Droplet and two negating Xyz/Link cards give broad, layered interaction.
• High-ATK Dinosaur closers (Tyranno 3500, Dogoran 3000, Qoatlus 2700) and Link/Xyz boards provide real closing power.
• Legal list with only one Limited card, run at its legal limit of one copy.

Weaknesses

• Conditional special summons (Tyranno, Qoatlus, Giant Rex) create dead-draw and brick risk in opening hands.
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median cannot be measured and confidence is capped at Medium.
• Generic Link fillers in the Extra Deck (Linkuriboh, Security Dragon) dilute engine coherence.
• Core-card overlap with the usage statistics is low (9 of 25 core cards present), which suggests a non-standard build; this is observed, not evaluated.

Critical choke points

• The Dinosaur Level 4 and Level 2 starter bodies: most lines depend on at least one of them being live in the opening hand.
• Dinosaur-type material for Evolzar and Qoatlus summons, which depends on Dinosaur bodies surviving to the Graveyard or banish zone.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in Duel Links: 30 Main, 9 Extra, 0 Side within the 20–30 / 0–9 size rules.; Abyss Dweller is Limited (1 legal copy), run at 1 copy; all other restricted cards are Unlimited.; Copy histogram 4×1, 4×2, 6×3 across 14 distinct Main cards.; Hypergeometric draw probabilities for each copy count.
• Observed: Usage statistics: 9 of 25 core cards for the Dinos archetype are present in this list.
• Inferred: Consistency and brick estimates from hypergeometric draw and card text.; Interaction density from negate and removal text, read semantically.; Recursion and resilience read from revival-on-destruction text.; Closing power from listed ATK values and Link/Xyz boards.
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; no dated metagame sample supplied.; Matchup and format fit (D13) and side adaptability (D12) are provisional.
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference. No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent. No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates); those signals are Inferred or Unknown. Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied. Guides reference a Dino Awakening skill that is not part of the deck export, so skill-driven setup is unscored. Duel Links has no side deck, so D12 is not measured.